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Marcus Reed — Consulting Austin, Texas

Opener to Headliner

You’ve been the opening act long enough.

Business coaching for founders, creators and the teams they build. Startup strategy sessions, executive coaching, team workshops, a growth roadmap and pitch deck review — the work that turns a good warm-up set into a headline one.

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A business coaching session in progress at a table in Austin
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Now booking Startup strategy/ Executive coaching/ Team workshops/ Growth roadmap/ Pitch deck review

The setlist · five ways in

Pick the track
you need tonight.

Every engagement starts with a single working session and an honest look at where you are. From there we choose the work that fits — nothing gets added to your calendar by default.

  1. 01

    Startup Strategy Sessions

    Where the next move gets decided. We put the market, the offer and your calendar on one page, then choose the two things worth doing first.

    • Positioning
    • Offer
    • First moves
  2. 02

    Executive Coaching

    Standing room for the hard calls. Ongoing one-to-one work on how you lead, what you delegate and what you finally put down.

    • Leadership
    • Decisions
    • Delegation
  3. 03

    Growth Roadmap

    The whole tour on one page. Where the work comes from, what gets built first, and what you say no to for the next stretch.

    • Plan
    • Sequence
    • Focus
  4. 04

    Pitch Deck Review

    We read your deck the way the room reads it, then rebuild the narrative until the story holds up before the first slide lands.

    • Narrative
    • Slides
    • Story
  5. Encore

    Team Workshops

    Bring the whole band on stage. A working session with your team: shared language, named owners, and a plan everyone helped write.

    • Full band
    • Alignment
    • Owners

Who this is for

Four rooms,
one long night.

Stop 01

Founders in the first year

There’s a product and a handful of customers. What’s missing is a story that travels without you in the room.

Stop 02

Creators building a personal brand

The audience is real and it’s growing. The offer behind it is still deciding what it wants to be when it grows up.

Stop 03

Leaders scaling a team

Every decision still routes through you and the calendar is showing it. The band is ready; the arrangement isn’t.

Stop 04

Operators stepping into an executive seat

New title, bigger room, and nobody handed you the script on the way in.

An empty Austin venue stage lit before doors
Every headliner started on a stage like thisAustin, TX

Backstage · how it runs

Three steps
to the big room.

  1. 01

    Soundcheck

    A strategy session. Everything on the table — where you actually are, what’s working, and which noise to stop carrying.

  2. 02

    The set

    Coaching and the growth roadmap. We work the plan in regular sessions until the decisions get faster and easier to defend.

  3. 03

    Take it on the road

    Team workshops so the plan doesn’t live only in your head, and a pitch deck review so the story holds up outside the room.

A small team workshop in an Austin loft with notes on the glass wall
WorkshopFull band
Printed pitch deck pages being annotated on a desk
Deck reviewLine by line

Booking · start here

Book the
bigger room.

Tell me what you’re building and where it’s stuck. We’ll pick the right room to start in and book the first session. Sessions run from Austin, TX.

  • 01You send the note.
  • 02We book the first session.
  • 03We write the setlist together.

Start here No warm-up needed

Coaching in Austin, TX